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Fun how there isn't in any information that would be relevant to actual materials scientists

No properties, no pictures, no masses collected for these amazing 'found' materials, nada

Peter Thiel can spend his money on whatever he wants, I guess. I'm not concerned

Polymers and inorganic complexes can do a lot of really interesting things that are counter-intuitive (ie becoming insoluble on heating, robust mechanical behavior), but they're expensive and require mildly annoying synthesis in some cases

If we have to harvest magic dust from a meteor or perform some complex synthesis to get it to work, it won't be any more widespread than specialty PNIPAM copolymers

So who covers local intrigue, then?

To whom does one blow the whistle about corruption at City Hall? To the local Sinclair afilliate?

I suspect NPR covers that for a lot of people; it might be correlated with why some politicians are so eager to defund them completely.

> It is amazing to be able to deduce the past existence of creatures that left no physical trace.

Well, unless they didn't have a past existence

Try not to pat yourself on the back too hard

Because it'll get them taken away before the world ends

Its an annoying needle to thread

It depends on interobject density and single object mass, I'd reckon.

Having it redirect the orbit at velocity might be astronomically (!) low

Also, I don't know it's trajectory relative to the solar plane; it might be ruled out by that alone

I stared at that figure for about a minute and wondered at how friggin' satisfied they have to have been about it.

It was and is really neat, even if the likelihood of its reality is low.

Also schooling?

Do they require that you educate your child via the state or (not so) equivalent home-schooling?

> When people are doing things for free, there is generally a maximum to the amount of effort they will put into things.

I don't know, I feel like it's the opposite

When you look at the myriad X-Files or guitar pedal schematic or whatever site, they could be endlessly detailed because it's what people did for fun. Nobody maxes out on fun.

I do, however, max out my work hours...generally as quickly as possible. D In a behavioral psych class, we had the "Bart vs Lisa" analogy of working.

If we pay Bart to study, his grades will increase. If we pay Lisa to study, her grades will decrease. I've forgotten the original papers this was based on because it's not my area.

Anyway. I'm sure Bart's work for pay is equivalent or better than Lisa's free work.

If asked, any rational human would work an hour for $5 versus $0, right? Nobody can spend time making anything complex or useful and then give it away freely.

Or packet radio [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_radio]?

My wife has tried several new mood stabilizers and combination drugs, but none of them work as well as lithium

Her old med (Latuda) will go up to $300/mo after the 1 year trial period....but it never worked very well.

It is absurd that something so simple should work as effectively as it does

> Another philosophy would be to just add whatever functions I can think of and see what users do with it.l

Well, the middle ground could be allowing the basic PEMDAS mathematic functions and their inverses, just to allow common manipulations

The words "society" and "justice" have become triggers for a certain type of person

Both projects progressed to the point of running successful animal trials (n ~ 250), all of which were paid for by government grants

Obviously rats aren't people, but a company obvious be edits when a molecule is discovered, synthesis optimized, and method of action/LD50 is paid for by the public before every cent of profits are privatized

Even if they don't market it, they own something tthat the public paid for

Both projects progressed to the point of running successful animal trials (n ~ 250)

Finding a prospective molecule is a huge part of the process - this is why computer binding models are such a hot topic

The fact that we paid for discovery, synthetic development, and PoC is a pretty big deal whether or not it ends up being a marketed drug

I know the guy who sold the patent was paid very well (aftet the university cut, of course) ... but who paid the bills to make it possible?

They also spend a lot of time looking for University researchers that have found something they like, then buy esclusive rights to the compound

This recently happened to a prof in my department. He's an organic chemist, d evisde a way to prevent plaque buildup, and had the rights to the compound contracted out by an unknown pharmaceutical company

My boss also had a meeting with Pfizer about a thing

In this case the research would have been publicly funded and been obtained by a private company who bypassed the need to spend money on development

That's a shady technique, IMHO, because it's our tax money directly enriching a corporation

I like Physics Frontiers - they just cover a couple of papers on a modern physics topic (Loop Quantum Gravity, or Octonions).

It's a physicist and sculptor who taught himself serious modern physics, so it's an interesting dynamic.

It's like they listened to This American Life and thought "This would be so much better with less chit chat and more fun sound effects!"

> or to do it with my own ship and technology but they turned me down. You can't help unless you are invited to help

Didn't the guy who found the initial wreckage do it on his own inspite of the Malaysian gov't?

Cheese is as specific as pork as far as constituent ingredients.

You're just attempting to replicate the sensory experience. Sweetness, texture, moisture, etc. As in, say, beef vs pork barbecue. Beef vs pork steak.

Jackfruit probably mimics pork better than beef - not all substitutions are equivalent.

They do not need to hide the backdoor's existences though

Just add a 'USGOV BACKDOOR' tab and password/encrypt it or whatever the fuck. It doesn't need to be a real control panel or anything other than trivial options (a grayed-out unchangeable toggle box that says 'Enable backdoor', for instance). I'm not the guy to provide you UI tips.

Let users understand it's there without relying on security-through-obscurity. Disallow any temptation to use StO and ensure users are fully informed of the government's firm and fatherly hand.

Yes, I know that the GUI/man page information are not 'the backdoor'. It is also not actually any functionality for the software you're using. It is function through abstracted symbols.

Protest via abstracted symbolism - visible and immutable vulnerability.

The truly amusing part is that they think spending money on labeling issues will do anything to stop it

Fuck 'em.

Call it a "Vurger".

Let lazy phoneme substitution take care of the rest.

I'll second this

I liked the idea of science, but I didn't understand at all how people end up becoming one

It honestly wasn't until halfway through undergrad that I really got it and decided to actually pursue it

The impact factor of PLOS is 2.8

Not awful, but certainly not top tier

My boss would prefer to hold a project for six months and add significance versus publishing in something <4

If you're lucky!

I only see the dots

It is commonly known as "the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic"

It's a title, not a series of facts

"I'm losing my perspicacity!"

I can't imagine how anybody could use it in a non-awkward or unclear way

Validity is not sanity; just conjulate the worbs, I guess

Yeah - somehow "humanly" is a word while "autereric" is not. Cats sit humanly, but filmmakers don't have auteureric predilictions.

I got 87-0 being strict and 93-17 by including "maybes", and I'm not sure which is more reasonable.

"In every joke is the seed of truth"

Unless you're a professional, jokes mostly just reveal the things going on in your brain

If you have a soft spot for jokes about dumb women or dumb [race] or encouraging kids to harm themselves, well...